Soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) affects more than one billion people worldwide. WHO aims to control STH as a public health problem by providing periodic anthelminthic treatment to ≥75% of all at-risk children. Tracking progress toward this 2020 goal relies on accurate reporting of drug coverage. For STH, this is difficult because an unknown-but substantial-proportion of deworming occurs outside nationally-administered STH control programs, so-called 'unprogrammed deworming.' Further, coordination of intersectoral efforts needed to administer drugs to different risk groups-and to report coverage to WHO-is inadequate.
This paper describes these challenges and offers suggestions to overcome them.
BT - International health C1 -http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26311691?dopt=Abstract
DO - 10.1093/inthealth/ihv055 J2 - Int Health LA - eng N2 -Soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) affects more than one billion people worldwide. WHO aims to control STH as a public health problem by providing periodic anthelminthic treatment to ≥75% of all at-risk children. Tracking progress toward this 2020 goal relies on accurate reporting of drug coverage. For STH, this is difficult because an unknown-but substantial-proportion of deworming occurs outside nationally-administered STH control programs, so-called 'unprogrammed deworming.' Further, coordination of intersectoral efforts needed to administer drugs to different risk groups-and to report coverage to WHO-is inadequate.
This paper describes these challenges and offers suggestions to overcome them.
PY - 2015 T2 - International health TI - The challenge of unreported and unprogrammed deworming for soil-transmitted helminth control programs. SN - 1876-3405 ER -